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    Chapter Thirty Five: The Enemy at Home

    Athens and Sparta fight to a standstill. One of them ...

    Athens and Sparta fight to a standstill. One of them comes out on top but they are both weakened. Neither learns the lesson they so ...

    Jun 18, 2013 Read more
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    Sound Quality

    I have been informed of a slight problem with the ...

    I have been informed of a slight problem with the sound quality on some recent episodes. I have found the cause and will be re-recording ...

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    Chapter Thirty Four: League Champions

    With the Persians defeated it is time for the Greeks ...

    With the Persians defeated it is time for the Greeks to band together to increase their power. Unfortunately they don't. Both Athens and Sparta form ...

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    Chapter Thirty Three: The Enemy Abroad

    At last, the Greeks band together to defeat an external ...

    At last, the Greeks band together to defeat an external enemy. The Persians are coming!

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    Chapter Thirty Two: Athens

    We've done Sparta. Now Athens takes centre stage. The largest ...

    We've done Sparta. Now Athens takes centre stage. The largest and most cultured of the Greek poleis became the centre of the Greek world and, ...

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    Chapter Thirty One: Sparta

    Sparta was a very important city in Archaic Greece. Not ...

    Sparta was a very important city in Archaic Greece. Not only that it was a very strange one. In this chapter we find out why!

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    Chapter Thirty: Men of the Polis

    As Greece drags itself from the Dark Ages an entirely ...

    As Greece drags itself from the Dark Ages an entirely new kind of society emerges. The city states which would dominate the Greek world for the next ...

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    Chapter Twenty Nine: Dark Ages

    The Mycenaean civilisation fell and nothing much rose to replace ...

    The Mycenaean civilisation fell and nothing much rose to replace it. In this chapter we look at why it fell and why thefollowing few hundred ...

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    Chapter Twenty Eight: The Face of Agamemnon

    Did the Trojan War actually happen? Was it a real ...

    Did the Trojan War actually happen? Was it a real event or just mythological? In this chapter we assess the evidence from archaeology, from Homer ...

    May 7, 2013 Read more
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    Chapter Twenty Seven: In the Beginning (Again)

    Ancient Greek history began a very long time ago! In ...

    Ancient Greek history began a very long time ago! In this first history chapter we look at the pre-history of Greece and at the bronze ...

    May 6, 2013 Read more
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